Heard about this all day then watched it. And waited fruitlessly for brutality.

Um, dude was an escaped DYS fugitive resisting arrest and got restrained/cuffed. It ain't always pretty but neither are cop funerals. And spare me the 'he is only a teen!' without mentioning he's a full-grown adult male.

bigpapi617713 minutes agoLISTEN UP CLOSE EVERY 1. HE IS BLACK. HE HAS TO BE INï»¿ A GANG OR DONE SOMETHING STUPID, BECAUSE MOST BLACK PEOPLE ARE. YET THERE ARE A FEW THAT ARE DOING GOOD THINGS. BUT THE "GHETTO" PEOPLE ARE THE ONES RECORDING. ARE YOU KIDDINGï»¿ ME? SHE CAN'T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH PROPERLY. AND DID U NOT CLEARLY SEE HIM NOT RESTRAINING. BTW I AM BLACK AND I'M THE FEW THAT ARE STRIVING FOR BETTER. YOU ARE AT COLLEGE NOT AT YOUR STUPID DANCEHALL PARTIES.

RA the kid had 4 cops on him, there's no need for that cop to be repeatedly punching him and kneeing him, at that point I don't blame him for resisting it's a natural reaction to try to cover up if you're getting beat by a group of grown men.

Yeah the scene seems excessive but until the whole story comes out we'll never know. It's certainly not like the BPD was trying to hide the amount of force they were using in front of a shitload of people in broad daylight at a community college.

The few videos posted on here in the past were much more egregious than this. That being said, at what point is it possible to not move when being punched and kneed continually in the ribs? That's not resisting, that's hurting; resisting begets a beating, but withering at the hands of someone else shouldn't be misconstrued as resisting.

Again, who knows what preceded this; force beyond that which is normal may have been justifiable given the totality of the circumstances; video doesn't paint the whole picture.

We have no idea what happened before I guess he could have been throwing haymakers or whatever.

"Escaped DYS fugitive" what does this even mean? What do you need to do to be a department of youth services fugitive that warrants that many cops. Was he considered dangerous? Until those questions are answered it is hard to really form an opinion on the video.